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Learning Our Way Ahead: Navigating institutional change and agricultural decentralisation
… Learning Our Way Ahead: Navigating institutional change and agricultural …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Food market in Lusaka, Zambia.
Food systems of the poor: shaping the agenda for the Food Systems Summit
… hunger and malnutrition persist, and production methods are harming our natural environment. A better food system is needed, but we need to …
Event, 25 October 2020
Two women carry buckets with fruits on their heads.
Street vendors and garbage pickers need protection from climate extremes
… Informal workers can face various climate-related risks during their work – including unbearable levels of heat, flooding, pollution and … and unsafe worksites. Rising temperatures are another key threat: our surveys with 420 informal workers in Harare and Masvingo show heat … health and living conditions, as one farmer in Zimbabwe explained: “Our air is not clean. It has a lot of dust from roads, from the nearby …
Insight, 05 October 2021
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… human health and livelihoods at risk. Nature loss directly increases our vulnerability to pandemics, such as COVID-19, natural disasters and … said: “Never has it been more clear that we need to reset our relationship with nature. The way we currently produce and consume … the global evangelical community to support the WEA’s commitment to work ardently for a just, sustainable, carbon-neutral, and …
News, 18 September 2020
A volunteer conducting an interview outside
Evaluating change can be challenging; it starts with quality data collection
… the health interventions we support and their conservation outcomes. Our NGO, Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) , provides local … outcomes.  Before we go any further, let me briefly summarise our model: we work with a network of volunteer Village Health Teams (VHTs) to reach …
Insight, 25 June 2019
Headshots of four people over a sunrise over a lush forest
Getting climate resilience right – the case for backing smallholder organisations: Make Change Happen podcast episode 13
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers and guests discuss key global development challenges and … and collaboration is called upon to fund the climate-resilience work which we all benefit from: our panel also consider how little support smallholders doing this work …
Article, 13 September 2021
A woman with a basket on her back picks tea leaves from a huge field surrounding her
Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate
… that prioritise locally-led action for people, nature and climate. Our report shows evidence of some emerging trends hinting at a positive … the principles for locally led adaptation (LLA) , for example. Our report sets out five recommendations and a series of supporting … to delivering the global biodiversity framework and transforming our relationship with nature. Similarly, COP27 should build on the high …
Insight, 27 May 2022
Woman, wearing a hat and a basket on her back, picks vegetables
The unsung heroes for nature and climate
… and forced many farmers to travel long distances to secure water and work in their field in temperatures over 40°C. Local champions for … operation imposes more cropping system and marketing constraints that work against diversification strategies. The biggest investors in … to turn the tide on those powerful forces, for example, through our work with Forest and Farm Facility  which provides direct support to …
Insight, 07 December 2022
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… et Développement en Afrique ( IED Afrique) in Senegal to take this work forward and headed the organisation until 2019. It continues to … problems – which is a widespread but biased policy view, not only in our governments but in international development rhetoric – to seeing … the Sahel is facing, and which needs to be taken into account in our future, is the issue of insecurity. Insecurity has become a major, …
Article, 29 November 2021
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Pathways to change: IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… report, IIED director Andrew Norton says: "The [four] pathways guide our action at different levels, as we link local knowledge to global forums. Through them, we drive change to help realise our goals: increased investment in locally controlled land and natural resource use; cities that work for people and planet; fair and equitable solutions to climate …
Publication, 01 October 2018